Anyone who has pigeons or doves in their garden has been issued an urgent warning due to a disease which is spreading this ...

Households are being urged to take action now to help stop the spread of an aviary illness that appears to disproportionately affect the classic British bird. This bird stays in the UK over winter ...

A MEDAL awarded to a hero pigeon in World War Two is set to sell for £10,000 at auction. Tommy was supposed to be racing from Dorset to Cumbria in 1942 when a storm blew him into Nazi-occupied ...

During World War II, the British supported the French Resistance by providing nearly 17,000 pigeons. These were dropped by parachute or smuggled into France in coat pockets, backpacks and baskets ...

Found in an exhausted state by a Dutch postman, the bird was passed to Dick Drijver, a Dutch resistance member and pigeon fancier, who identified it as British from the leg ring. Drijver nursed ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Pigeons are one of the oldest domesticated birds. They have been kept for thousands of years and used for food ...

Pigeon fanciers from around the world have flocked to Blackpool Pigeon fanciers from around the world have flocked to a seaside town for their annual show. The British Homing World Show was held ...

While the number of British pigeon fanciers has fallen from 60,000 in 1990 to about 21,000 today, there are 100,000 fanciers in Beijing, and Taiwan alone has half a million fanciers. And the ...

A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance ... He was passed to a resistance member who identified the bird as British from its leg ring. In an attempt to notify British ...

Pigeon fanciers from around the world have flocked to a seaside town for their annual show. The British Homing World Show was held in Blackpool is thought to have attracted about 15,000 visitors ...